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Brain networks for Social Cognition

Posted on May 26, 2017 by

By studying rhesus monkeys, researchers have identified a brain network dedicated to processing social interactions — a discovery that offers tantalizing clues to the origins of our ability to understand what other people are thinking. Scientists call our ability to … Continue reading →

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How our understanding of the Brain could be wrong

Posted on April 4, 2017 by

Understanding the human brain is arguably the greatest challenge of modern science. The leading approach for most of the past 200 years has been to link its functions to different brain regions or even individual neurons (brain cells). But recent … Continue reading →

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Human Brain Networks Developing in Adolescence Related to Evolutionary Expansion

Posted on March 31, 2017 by

According to a new study, adolescence may be a crucial period for remodeling of the human brain. Penn study uses data from study of brain development to offer new opportunities for research into prevention of psychiatric illness. Adolescence marks not … Continue reading →

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REM, not Incubation, improves Creativity by priming Associative Networks

Posted on February 10, 2016 by

The hypothesized role of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, which is rich in dreams, in the formation of new associations, has remained anecdotal. We examined the role of REM on creative problem solving, with the Remote Associates Test (RAT). Using … Continue reading →

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Family income, Parental Education and Brain structure in Children and Adolescents

Posted on January 13, 2016 by

Socioeconomic disparities are associated with differences in cognitive development. The extent to which this translates to disparities in brain structure is unclear. We investigated relationships between socioeconomic factors and brain morphometry, independently of genetic ancestry, among a cohort of 1,099 … Continue reading →

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The Creative Mind is a Technicolor Contradiction

Posted on January 8, 2016 by

What is going on in our brains when we are in our creative mode? Besides being in a flow state, what parts of the brain are we calling on to help us imagine and create? There are three major networks … Continue reading →

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Brain Networks and Cognitive Architectures

Posted on October 9, 2015 by

Most accounts of human cognitive architectures have focused on computational accounts of cognition while making little contact with the study of anatomical structures and physiological processes. A renewed convergence between neurobiology and cognition is well under way. A promising area … Continue reading →

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